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...Industrial fisheries are now going thousands of miles, thousands of feet deep and catching things that live hundreds of years in the least protected place on Earth. They are roving bandits using state of the art technologies to plunder," says Elliott Norse, president of Marine Conservation Biology Institute...
...Sarah Huckabee is down-to-earth and hardworking, regularly putting in 90-hour weeks. After leaving her job with the Education Department in Washington, she has spent the past year directing field operations for her father's campaign. (One of her two older brothers also works for the campaign, in Little Rock, Ark.) Six weeks ago, she moved to Des Moines to be her father's eyes and ears on the ground in Iowa. "There is a degree of trust between them that is very special," says Eric Woolson, who runs the Huckabee campaign in the state...
PLAYING CATCH-UP Orbiting 200 miles above Earth at 17,500 m.p.h., the space station passes over Cape Canaveral, Fla., for just 5 min. each day. For the shuttle to catch up without wasting too much fuel, the timing has to be dead-on. STAYING IN LANE It takes 2˝ days to intercept the station. The shuttle is launched into a slightly lowerorbit. Like a runner on an inside track, it catches up to the station, fires its thrusters and edges up to the station's orbit for docking...
...know more today than we did last Friday about the past. And last Friday we knew more about the past than any other human civilization that’s ever existed on the face of the earth,” McCormick said...
...figure. As such, not only would the player have to prove that he didn't use steroids, but that Mitchell published his name with "actual malice," with "a reckless disregard for the truth." Of course, a bespectacled former Senator who is the chairman of the largest law firm on earth, and who helped broker the Northern Ireland peace deal of 1998, might be tough to paint as the reckless type. "They are not impossible to win," says Jeffrey Standen, a Willamette University law professor, of defamation claims for public figures. "But it would be very, very hard...